Is Genymotion faster than AVD?

The Cup of Solution

One of the major advantages that Genymotion offers is speed, as stated earlier Genymotion is definitely faster than virtual devices from the AVD Manager . This is because Genymotion uses the x86 architecture to run, which is great for performance.

The Genymotion startup time is around 5 seconds (compared to at least 30 seconds for the Android emulator). Genymotion also runs Robotium tests visibly faster, and with a smoother UI .